As I have said - indeed, it was the entire point of the thread - AI has advanced in leaps and bounds recently. Just search on Google to see this. My first experience with AI was with Chat GPT and how it could supplant the human mind in coursework in my studies. I never put it to the test as that would have been cheating, but it was interesting to see what it came up with. Not perfect, but very interesting. The best evolution was in AI detection - you can now feed a script through an algorithm, ironically powered by AI, that detects computer aided or created text. It's constantly evolving, in a war between AI generation and plagiarism. It actually took it's first head a few weeks back in a local University - the cheater pleaded that he had no time in his studies to write an entire dissertation, which I can sympathise with. On the other hand, if people are using AI to write their work whilst I am studying and submitting actual work, that's a little annoying.
Then in my life came AI image generation. Started off laughable - the best free tool made some terrible mistakes. But the pro stuff was far more serious. I have personally used it to generate a logo for my therapeutic business, and I have become rather attached to it! No royalties to pay, never going to be copied (I hope!) Very useful so far and I await its advances with bated breath.
Three more advances. First came AI voice generations. Again, impressive, but not to the point where I could use it. I tried to apply it to give voice to long therapeutic scripts - it would have been amazing for those that are over 2 hours in length - but it sounds so robotic sadly. One to revisit.
Then came, AI music. Free. Can't argue with that. Actually sounds rather convincing. I mean, you can tell that it's computer generated - the free stuff at least. But even so, it's pretty amazing. I've been creating 10 tracks a day for a few weeks and so far 9 have stood out and been uploaded to my site. I like them! They have flaws, yes, but they're pretty damn cool. And again, royalty free! Personal to my specifications too! So a thumbs up here. Not perfect, but watcha gonna do?
Finally, we have Deep Fakes. Put an advanced enough computer behind it and you can generate pretty much anything and these videos can be near perfect. As I said, there was one video of Biden telling people to stay at home and not to vote - were it not for the fact that it was perplexing, this could have done some real damage. Put enough computing power behind it and you can do pretty much anything.
To summarise, AI IS coming on in leaps and bounds. Free constructs leave something to be desired and are detectable but that's not to slam them. It's a bit of a war ATM, between Universities and students, with both leapfrogging the other. But give it time and there's no telling what it can do.
